Autism and Sign Language Experts Bring Consortium to Cambridge, Mass.

January 27, 2016

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Last year, two Stony Brook faculty members joined forces to transform how experts around the world study communication and autism. Now with two major meetings under their belts, projects are underway and progress is in sight.

“This meeting featured close to twice the number of presenters at the inaugural meeting from a wide variety of disciplines, including Fellows of the Academy,” said Aronoff. “Several possible collaborative projects emerged from the meeting that, we expect, will broaden and strengthen research into the distinguishing characteristics of autistic communication.”

The first CASL meeting, held at Stony Brook University, sparked an unprecedented interdisciplinary research effort in the study of social communication in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). For more information, read our feature story.

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